Product-shaped or movement-shaped?
People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.
How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
Flipboard's browser for the open social web is out for web users today.
People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.
How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.
Flipboard's browser for the open social web is out for web users today.
I joined Rabble on the Revolution.Social podcast.
What resource-constrained teams need to ask before writing a line of code
AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.
Ben Werdmuller explores the intersection of technology, democracy, and society. Always independently published, reader-supported, and free to read.
It's "the biggest student data privacy disaster in history" - even though the core platform is open source.
Building a civic information economy, not cultures of extraction.
"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that society needs?"
"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said." But consolidation is a dangerous road.
"To labour out of love, and to choose to share their work freely in a market society, OSS developers find themselves in a position where they are vulnerable to exploitation and harm."
"AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?"
AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.
This month's prompt is "sticks and stones will break my bones".
When open source becomes a bureaucracy, it stops being able to innovate. For a product, that can mean death.
People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.
How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?
"Apple’s fix means iPhones should no longer save copies of deleted messages from Signal or other apps, and Apple said the patch also purges already saved and related notifications."